Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

You try to find information on a local business through social media, only to find a few accounts frozen in time. Even worse, sometimes the business doesn’t have social media accounts at all. According to a 2015 study from Clutch , nearly half of small businesses do not actively use social media.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

You try to find information on a local business through social media, only to find a few accounts frozen in time. Even worse, sometimes the business doesn’t have social media accounts at all. According to a 2015 study from Clutch , nearly half of small businesses do not actively use social media.

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Small Business Social Media Media Analytics 60

Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

You try to find information on a local business through social media, only to find a few accounts frozen in time. Even worse, sometimes the business doesn’t have social media accounts at all. According to a 2015 study from Clutch , nearly half of small businesses do not actively use social media.

Small Business 60

Small Business Social Media Media Analytics 60

The Proactive Report

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Data Driven PR. As you can see from the content strategy, it’s all about the data. And every part of your PR plan should be data-driven now. You have to learn to gather it, slice and dice it, analyze it and extract the insights that drive your PR strategy and actions.

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Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

MarTech forever changed the way that marketers work, what they report as success and how they do their jobs. PR professionals and communicators, however, have not, as a whole, significantly changed how they measure their success. The typical response is that PR ROI and Earned Media are more difficult to measure.

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

petabytes of data. The data available to PR professionals and marketers today has the potential to answer so many questions, but the problem is: lots of people don’t know what to do with the data they have. Collecting and analyzing data doesn’t have to mean combing through pages upon pages of spreadsheets.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 30, 2014

At this year’s Social Media Success Summit, I had the opportunity to teach an advanced marketing and communications analytics session. One of the ideas I shared was looking beyond just the data that comes out of the box from tools like Google Analytics, Facebook insights, etc. Christopher S.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Hyper-Segmentation of News Means Hyper-Segmentation of PR. Society and social media have created hyper-focused segmentation of the audience. PR must adapt to realize that no one audience exists any longer; brands and clients instead address dozens or hundreds of micro-audiences in their communications. Christopher S.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 26, 2016

In the spring of 2015, SHIFT launched its cutting-edge Marketing Technology Immersion (MTI) program to help the agency develop a better understanding of SHIFT’s data-driven approach to communications and client services. This way, you can adjust which tools and strategies you are using and provide optimal results all year long.

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Prohibition

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Overview of Tech PR Tech PR is the strategic use of communications and relationships to build the reputation of a brand or business in the technology industry. Tech PR also involves securing media coverage and amplifying content through storytelling to reach the right target audience.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 8, 2015

Rather than just wing it or have a purely canned talk that may not be relevant to the audience and the event, we can look to data. Let’s dig into what a data-driven public speaking strategy would look like as part of your overall data-driven PR program. Vice President, Marketing Technology.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 12, 2017

This question – and its many variations – is a disguise for a much simpler question: How does PR help me make money / not get fired? Public relations is a tool for building awareness and trust. PR Isn’t Sales. Public relations is not a tool for selling things. The Root Cause of Lack of PR Impact.

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Shift Communications

MAY 22, 2017

At the same time, generation after generation of new media pop up, from blogs to social media to video influencers and more. Imagine what a timesaver this will be for companies as they tackle GDPR compliance in the next year, one of the most important changing regulations in marketing and advertising. Machine Reading.

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Shift Communications

JULY 24, 2017

Brands that are too quick to pull the trigger – usually via social media – often get caught in a riptide of negative backlash. s team should arm themselves with the proper media monitoring tools to help cull coverage and track the conversation, enabling the execution team to react to course changes in real-time.

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Shift Communications

MARCH 7, 2016

In 2015, Google released its Customer Journey to Online Purchase insights tool and there was much rejoicing. Marketers and communicators found great value in Google’s generic models for how customers made decisions with marketing inputs. What if a company’s data doesn’t exactly map to the generic model?

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Shift Communications

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Naturally, as one of the first-ever social media agencies, we wanted to understand the impact of the doubled character limits. Using tools like Facebook’s Crowdtangle social monitoring platform, we digested over a million tweets. Vice President, Marketing Technology. Marketing and advertising. Christopher S.

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Shift Communications

JULY 19, 2017

As our VP of Marketing Tech previously summarized : In a crisis management situation, something has gone wrong and your brand is on fire. This series will touch briefly on the following offerings/capabilities from SHIFT’s PR, marketing tech and creative services teams: Media monitoring. Media training. Emily Mong.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Getting Your PR Measurement Program in Shape for 2016. Why: “Unfortunately there is no silver bullet measurement tool. That does not mean we are left without resources to help define PR success and set the agenda for an even more data-driven PR program in the New Year,” writes Derek Lyons for Business 2 Community.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 2, 2017

We must become proficient in tagging audiences, retargeting and remarketing, email marketing, one-to-one communication in social media, and working with very specific audiences so that our message has the most impact for the effort and resources available to us. Dark Social and Influence.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Dealing with proprietary software often means converting our data into compatible formats for use by multiple, different tools. The final and arguably most important attribute of great data for predictive analytics is data that’s been chosen well. So, what data fits the mold for the above criteria? Chosen Well.

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Shift Communications

JUNE 25, 2018

It’s ok to have a good “feeling” that a story or tactic will bear fruit (that’s the art and experience we all bring to the table), but it’s critical that we all gut-check feelings around strategy and tactics by looking at data. What are the themes discussed the most during a conference on social media?

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Shift Communications

MAY 4, 2016

My recent tour of the USC Annenberg School’s Center for Public Relations only confirmed my hunch that our formerly-hidebound industry has been radically transformed via social media, content marketing, visual storytelling, better analytics tools and processes, etc. – and that this process is speeding up, not slowing down.

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 1, 2015

The chefs are faced with only the data the ingredients provide and their own intuition. As I sat watching these chefs whip up their treats, it got me thinking – this is exactly what we as marketers and communicators do every day. As marketers, we are bombarded with information and data from all directions. Trust your gut.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

We’ve used Watson Analytics to prescribe social media engagement strategy based on users’ engagement habits. ” when you read about the emergence of a new technology, a new tool, a new idea. We discovered GDELT, while powerful, isn’t ready for the average PR practitioner to use. Ask “what if?”

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 25, 2016

It’s becoming more fashionable to claim that your PR and marketing is “data-driven,” but what exactly does that mean? It means we evaluate our situation honestly, using the most unbiased tools at our disposal. This often means using data about our current market or audience to create a model.

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Onclusive

APRIL 21, 2020

This week, we’re continuing our April blog series focused on helping communications teams to get the credit they deserve and the resources they need by making a key shift to data-driven PR and communications. The first step toward implementation is to examine tools that are already in your backyard.

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Onclusive

APRIL 21, 2020

This week, we’re continuing our April blog series focused on helping communications teams to get the credit they deserve and the resources they need by making a key shift to data-driven PR and communications. The first step toward implementation is to examine tools that are already in your backyard.

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Data-Driven PR Measurement System Data 362

Shift Communications

DECEMBER 31, 2015

That’s why we collected the key understandings needed to explain the profitability of PR to a sales team. Use our insights and our recommended tools, and you’ll be able to explain the ROI of your PR to whoever needs to hear it. Getting Your PR Measurement Program in Shape for 2016. Marketing Coordinator.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Social Media Configuration. Hidden in Google Analytics is a way to set up your social media channels so that Google Analytics tracks the content that you share on social channels and splits it up from other’s shares of your content on the same channels. It’s super easy to do.

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Newsfile

JANUARY 24, 2024

The public relations field covers a wide array of tools and you may find it hard to know how to prioritize your PR efforts in 2024. So, to help you out, we’ve identified the top 5 PR trends in 2024. Writing copy for social media is the most popular use for AI, according to 64% of PR pros.

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Newsfile

JANUARY 30, 2024

Melissa Strle It can be challenging for PR professionals to navigate through an array of tools and strategies. Understanding what to prioritize can be daunting and 2024’s top 5 PR trends sift through the constant advancements and shifts in the industry. In particular, short form videos are booming in PR trends.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 30, 2015

What Facebook Dislikes Could Mean for Data-Driven Marketers. The advent of such a button would give users a new way to respond to posts, and a new dimension of feedback for marketers to take into account. Everyone’s favorite blue bird is here to stay, so harness its power for your PR. Marketing Coordinator.

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Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

In recent market estimates, digital online and ad spending is expected to grow at approximately 11% per year through 2021. 1 Paid search, display ads, social media, online video advertising and email marketing will grow to 46% of advertising budgets 2. So what does digital marketing growth have to do with PR?

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Measurement Data-Driven PR Survey Storytelling 231

Shift Communications

DECEMBER 18, 2014

If you’re working with a data-driven PR firm, chances are at some point in your relationship you will be asked to grant access to a variety of marketing and data systems. To understand how systems access informs your PR program, we’ll reference the SHIFT Earned Media Hub Strategy as the base framework.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

As marketers and communicators, we have focused relentlessly on the single influencer. It’s why social media influence scores and top 100 social media lists seem to matter a great deal. The blue cluster above are general media and influencers. Vice President, Marketing Technology. Christopher S.

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5W PR

JUNE 6, 2022

For instance, in the past, a number of companies were used to having separate public relations departments internally, but these days, those departments are divided into public relations and marketing and both departments have shared responsibilities, especially in terms of any potential negative responses from the customers.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 2, 2015

The Agency had just sprouted a marketing technology team arm, and I had been itching to learn more in that area for some time. I was already starting to see the need to integrate our traditional PR practices with marketing tech. I’ve been on the PR side, and I’ve ventured over to the digital side. So where do you start?

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